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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/1] [MTD] UBI: implement per-volume update
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On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:21 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> This patch removes the global update marker support and everything
> related to it. Now we have per-volume update marker bit in the
> volume table. This makes us incompatible with older UBI images but
> this is not a big deal - UBI is not used so widely so far and we
> can afford dropping legacy stuff now.

Uuurgh. Incompatible in what way ? Does this mean you cannot boot from
an existing image anymore ?

	tglx